Lima Sends News on Visits and Local Events
Lima residents and visitors share calls and tours across Montana and neighboring states. Dozens of names attend church programs, host gatherings, or travel to Dillon, Butte, Armstead, and Yellowstone areas.
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Newspaper
Dillon Examiner
Location
Dillon, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1951
Page
10
Lima residents and visitors share calls and tours across Montana and neighboring states. Dozens of names attend church programs, host gatherings, or travel to Dillon, Butte, Armstead, and Yellowstone areas.
Mrs Eve Haight awaits word or arrival of husband Charles Waight Jr as letters return to the United States. Visitors include Perry and Mrs Goodwin from Minnesota touring Elkhorn-Beaverhead mine, picnicking at Elkhorn Springs. Other stops feature the Judges, Hayes family, Alf Martinsen party from Great Falls and Butte, and game warden Sholtz with a fawn. cattle buyers and local residents mingle at Polaris and nearby ranches.
Top performers in the deep well class highlight Worthington pumps with efficient bowls and impellers, ample line shafting, bronze bearings, and modern air cooled motors. Fully controlled lubrication and expert engineering promise more water for less money and dependable irrigation as crop protection. The representation offers pumping expertise without obligation.
Shell Oil reports a new oil discovery in the Williston Basin covering Montana and the Dakotas with Friday July 13 identified as the discovery day. Shell vice president 5 Bowlby denied claims the well was producing 1000 barrels a day.
Community notes from Wisdom detail visits and travels of locals including Mr. and Mrs. Rasmussen Mrs. Williams Mr. Lloyd and others. Visitors from Omaha Forsyth Missoula and Dillon drop by while local events feature a farewell for Rev and Mrs Lyons and a dinner party at the Huntley ranch. The Wisdom boys baseball team competes in Fairfield Western division tourney earning experience despite losses.
A petition filed with Montana's Public Service Commission by Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Co requests higher telephone rates. The company asserts current revenues do not provide a proper and reasonable return on its property. Details mention Dillon.
The report notes that continuing increases in labor and materials are key factors reducing the company's earnings. A proposed rate schedule would raise main residence telephones by up to four cents per day and main business telephones by up to eleven cents per day if approved.
Montana Livestock Auction Co in Butte reports cattle receipts of 620 for July 23 1951 with prices for good and medium grass fat steers heifers cows and bulls. Stockers and feeders show varied values for different age groups and dairy calves. Butcher and feeder cattle trends indicate declines vs prior sale.
Employment at the Hungry Horse project climbed to 2,300 last week and is forecast to grow further within a month. By summer’s end officials expect total labor to reach about 2,400 workers.
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